Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

A disco instead of a bar?

UK scientists are preparing to conduct the first clinical trials of the therapeutic effect of MDMA on people struggling with alcohol addiction.

05.07.2017
Genetics

Clarifying the evolution of Homo sapiens

In the DNA of the oldest Neanderthals in Europe, traces of a population of ancient people, relatives of the ancestors of Cro-Magnons, who penetrated into Europe at least 220 thousand years ago, have been found.

05.07.2017
Nanotechnology

Neurotransmitter

The new "transistor neuron" operates at speeds from 0.01 to 15 Hz, which will allow in the future to create a number of high-speed neuromorphic hardware based on it.

05.07.2017
New in Gerontology

Gait speed will help predict dementia

A group of scientists from the USA has shown that slowing down gait in combination with a decrease in the gray matter of the hippocampus allows predicting dementia.

04.07.2017
New in Gerontology

A common enemy

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases have different risk factors and clinical manifestations, but the formation of pathological accumulations of proteins in both cases stimulates the same enzyme.

04.07.2017
Genetics

Beta blockers alter gene expression

Popular antiarrhythmic drugs are able to fight potentially dangerous genetic changes associated with cardiovascular diseases.

04.07.2017
Biomedicine

Two-faced STING

The STING protein, a promising model of cancer immunotherapy, can lead to the death of T-lymphocytes. This side effect can be used to treat autoimmune diseases.

04.07.2017
Genetics

RNA instead of telomerase

In the absence of telomerase, non-coding TERRA RNAs can restore shortened yeast telomeres. They are found not only in yeast, but also in other organisms, including humans.

03.07.2017
Other life sciences

Antiretroviral retrovirus

Antigens of endogenous HERV-K retroviruses, released in an infected T-cell of the immune system, reduce the number and activity of HIV copies produced by it.

03.07.2017
Other life sciences

Argus in Russia

Scientists and doctors from the Scientific and Clinical Center of Otorhinolaryngology of the FMBA of Russia conducted the first operation in the history of Russia to implant a cyberset in the eye of a blind patient.

03.07.2017
Theories of aging

Why do men live less than women

The risk of running into one of the most common 15 causes of death in the United States is greater for men than for women in almost all cases – and these causes are responsible for 80% of all deaths.

30.06.2017
Genetics

"Disease genes" may not affect health

11 out of 50 survey participants were found to have genetic variants that cause the risk of developing rare hereditary diseases, but only two showed symptoms.

30.06.2017
Biomedicine

New medicine

Biotech and medicine are among the most fashionable, popular and interesting areas in high–tech business. What niches are being formed in this industry?

30.06.2017
Other life sciences

Brain and microflora

It is not yet clear what is the cause and what is the effect; scientists plan to find out whether microbes affect the brain, or the brain – on the species composition of the microflora.

30.06.2017
Cellular technologies

Neurons from fibroblasts

The new neurons mimic not only the disease, but also the age of the patient. In addition, an almost unlimited number of neurons can be created from a single skin biopsy.

30.06.2017
Genetic engineering

CRISPR-Cas3: error-free editing

One of the versions of the CRISPR/Cas genomic editor has an error correction system, the modification of which will make it safer for humans.

30.06.2017
Biomedicine

The cemetery of "unicorns"

Yuri Deigin, Vice President of the Science for Life Extension Foundation, talks about what is happening in the Alzheimer's market and why companies fail over and over again.

29.06.2017
Biomedicine

A negative result is also a result

Unlike the first series of the project on reproduction of works in oncology, in the second it turned out to reproduce not all the results, but most of them.

28.06.2017
Nanotechnology

Electronic synapses

American researchers have created the first semiconductor analogue of the synapse, which will allow scientists to create computing systems that simulate the work of the brain.

28.06.2017